Juju Vs. Christianity

Juju Vs. Christianity
Author: Gary S. Maxey
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019-05-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781948996051

"In this book we are calling for a dialogue that has yet to fully take place. We appeal for a genuine encounter between the tenets of age-old African Traditional Religion and the truth of the scriptures. What the early missionaries brought to our shores never engaged adequately with the long-established spiritual perspectives of Africa. Regrettably, Jesus Christ was always presented as the answer to questions outsiders were asking. Hardly anyone was asking what Jesus Christ might look like if he were to answer the questions burning on the African mind. But those are the questions we must answer in our own day. This book was written to move us in the right direction and will give us guidance on how to do it."

Voodoo, Hoodoo and Conjure in African American Literature

Voodoo, Hoodoo and Conjure in African American Literature
Author: James S. Mellis
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2019-07-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1476669627

From the earliest slave narratives to modern fiction by the likes of Colson Whitehead and Jesmyn Ward, African American authors have drawn on African spiritual practices as literary inspiration, and as a way to maintain a connection to Africa. This volume has collected new essays about the multiple ways African American authors have incorporated Voodoo, Hoodoo and Conjure in their work. Among the authors covered are Frederick Douglass, Shirley Graham, Jewell Parker Rhodes, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Ntozake Shange, Rudolph Fisher, Jean Toomer, and Ishmael Reed.

Juju Fission

Juju Fission
Author: Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2007
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9781433100895

Women, especially leaders, holding tête-à-têtes with men to address political impasses have been recognized as shrewd, double headed, or witchlike distinctions that link them with juju or extraordinary, survivalist powers. Juju Fission: Women's Alternative Fictions from the Sahara, the Kalahari, and the Oases In-Between is a theoretical and analytical book on African women writers that focuses on seven representative novels from different parts of Africa: Bessie Head's Maru (South Africa/Botswana); Nawal El Saadawi's Woman at Point Zero (Egypt); Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy; or Reflections from a Black-Eyed Squint and Changes (Ghana); Assia Djebar's A Sister to Scheherazade (Algeria); Calixthe Beyala's The Sun Hath Looked Upon Me (Cameroon); and Yvonne Vera's Nehanda (Zimbabwe). In her analysis, Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi demonstrates how women are viewed and how they operate in critical times. Ogunyemi explains how the heritage is passed on, in spite of dire situations emanating from colonialism, postcolonialism, ethnicism, sexism, and grinding poverty. An important contribution to many fields, Juju Fission is excellent background material for courses on African studies, women's studies, African Diaspora studies, black studies, global studies, and general literature studies.

Guide for the Christian Perplexed

Guide for the Christian Perplexed
Author: Thomas P. Power
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2012-01-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 163087549X

Thoughtful Christians are legitimately perplexed by a number of issues relating to the church's belief and practice. They are perplexed partly because they recognize that the issues themselves are thorny, and partly because they are not sure how to test the mutually inconsistent theories and explanations affirmed by diverse voices speaking with equal assurance. Most Christians find relatively little occasion or encouragement to address their perplexities with intellectual candor and integrity. If they dare to acknowledge their theological perplexities at all, they are too often told that these perplexities are unimportant, or that they can be answered very simply, or that they should be left to the experts. Guide for the Christian Perplexed, written by members of the faculty of Wycliffe College, Toronto, aims to explore a diversity of issues and questions to do with oour knowledge of Jesus othe meaning of suffering othe function of doctrine othe understanding of Scripture othe place of other religions othe challenge of atheism othe pleasures and complications of sexuality othe nature of worship othe way to evangelize ounderstanding who our neighbor is locally and globally odiversities of spirituality Here you will find thoughtful reflections and answers to the questions around these issues. A study guide is included for individual and group use.

Dilemmas of Culture in African Schools

Dilemmas of Culture in African Schools
Author: Cati Coe
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2005-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0226111318

In working to build a sense of nationhood, Ghana has focused on many social engineering projects, the most meaningful and fascinating of which has been the state's effort to create a national culture through its schools. As Cati Coe reveals in Dilemmas of Culture in African Schools, this effort has created an unusual paradox: while Ghana encourages its educators to teach about local cultural traditions, those traditions are transformed as they are taught in school classrooms. The state version of culture now taught by educators has become objectified and nationalized—vastly different from local traditions. Coe identifies the state's limitations in teaching cultural knowledge and discusses how Ghanaians negotiate the tensions raised by the competing visions of modernity that nationalism and Christianity have created. She reveals how cultural curricula affect authority relations in local social organizations—between teachers and students, between Christians and national elite, and between children and elders—and raises several questions about educational processes, state-society relations, the production of knowledge, and the making of Ghana's citizenry.

British Nigeria

British Nigeria
Author: Augustus Ferryman Mockler-Ferryman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1902
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN: